Manziel addresses whether he’s played final home game; Sumlin on USC

COLLEGE STATION – An emotional Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel, following the Aggies’ 51-41 victory over Mississippi State this evening, jumped into the Kyle Field stands with the fans and belted out the “Aggie War Hymn.”

Whether he will next make the jump into the NFL still must be answered, but Manziel sure acted as if he was calling signals at Kyle for the last time, in pumping his arms toward the crowd on the Aggies’ final drive, joining the fans for the school song and then running along the sidelines with his index finger extended.

Fans also spent much of the fourth quarter chanting, “One more year!” Afterward, he paid a rare visit with the media and offered “not one bit” if he’d thought about this being his last game at Kyle.

“I’m just focusing on getting us to a BCS berth (or) the best bowl game we can get to,” Manziel said. “That’s my only focus right now.”

Manziel finished 30 of 39 for 446 yards with five touchdowns and three interceptions, as the Aggies moved to 8-2.

“A lot of times we stopped their offense, but we couldn’t stop him,” Bulldogs coach Dan Mullen said.

I also asked Manziel if he was paying any attention to the Heisman Trophy race – one he’s right in the middle of again as the reigning winner. He responded that he hasn’t really paid it much mind, just as he didn’t last year, and is simply all about the Aggies winning their final two regular season games.

“I can’t put into words how bad I want that,” he said.

Meanwhile I asked coach Kevin Sumlin about the latest speculation that he’s the “top target” for USC, according to the Los Angeles Daily News.

“I’m not talking about that,” Sumlin said. “I’m talking about LSU.”

The Aggies face the Tigers, who are playing at Alabama tonight, in Baton Rouge on Nov. 23, and then close out their regular season on Nov. 30 at Missouri. A $450 million renovation will start in earnest on Kyle Field in the next couple of days, so this was the final game at Kyle “as is” – although A&M will continue playing its home games in its more than century-old environs.